It was hard for me to decide between running backs and corners but I will go with rb's. I feel like with the exception of the corners our defense as a whole is pretty well built. Coach up the o-line that is already good at pass protection and lets get a runner with some greased lightening. Go baby go!

red zone offense. i think we're a better team if the D line improves the pressure because it helps all other facets of the game but i see the progress there. not by leaps and bounds mind you, but progress still.

the red zone thing is a serious issue to me. we do very well with Brown kicking but man, think of the points left on the board. i feel mostly positive about our progress in all aspects of the game except this one. i don't have much to go on other than last saturday's game but i fear this may be something we're developing some bad habits with.

i think it mostly lies with Schaub, who is for the most part very impressive in other aspects of his game, this seams to be his biggest weakness. Perhaps the coaches could draw up something that give him easier reads in those situations but that's unlikely, there aren't many "easy reads" in that area. he just needs to be patient and smart.

We aren't good enough to settle for improving just one thing this year. We must improve several or face the possibility of falling even further behind the other teams in our division. We'll have to improve at least a couple of things just to tread water and stay at .500

We need to improve our running game from both the OL and the RB sides. Our guys have to learn a new system and learn it fast. We'll start to see what this stuff looks like a few weeks into the season. I believe the first few weeks will be very frustrating for us on the offensive side of the ball. It will get better but it's going to start ugly.

We need our QB to step up his level of play as well. Schaub was better than Carr ever had been (so was Sage) but this year he needs to get comfortable back there, make better decisions, and grow into the real leader of this offense. I have no problem with the Texans bringing someone in and handing them a starting position. There's nothing wrong with that. To keep it however that person needs to perform (something we never made players do in the past) and so Schaub needs to noticably pull away from Rosenfels this year in my opinion. He needs to become that guy who was worth two second rounders.

On defense we need to see this line start wreaking havoc with other teams pass protection. We need to see them start stuffing runners regularly. Last year we seemed to never be able to get off the field and Richard Smith took a lot of abuse for his "We're going to be aggressive" defense that always had some excuse as to why they couldn't get off the field. That needs to end in 2008. We need to stop some drives.

Lots of stuff to improve on. All of it is equally important. I can't pick one thing in there.

We aren't good enough to settle for improving just one thing this year. We must improve several or face the possibility of falling even further behind the other teams in our division. We'll have to improve at least a couple of things just to tread water and stay at .500

We need to improve our running game from both the OL and the RB sides. Our guys have to learn a new system and learn it fast. We'll start to see what this stuff looks like a few weeks into the season. I believe the first few weeks will be very frustrating for us on the offensive side of the ball. It will get better but it's going to start ugly.

We need our QB to step up his level of play as well. Schaub was better than Carr ever had been (so was Sage) but this year he needs to get comfortable back there, make better decisions, and grow into the real leader of this offense. I have no problem with the Texans bringing someone in and handing them a starting position. There's nothing wrong with that. To keep it however that person needs to perform (something we never made players do in the past) and so Schaub needs to noticably pull away from Rosenfels this year in my opinion. He needs to become that guy who was worth two second rounders.

On defense we need to see this line start wreaking havoc with other teams pass protection. We need to see them start stuffing runners regularly. Last year we seemed to never be able to get off the field and Richard Smith took a lot of abuse for his "We're going to be aggressive" defense that always had some excuse as to why they couldn't get off the field. That needs to end in 2008. We need to stop some drives.

Lots of stuff to improve on. All of it's equally important. I can't pick one thing in there.

If I have to pick ONE thing that will do the most to improve our record, I'll pick improving our running game. If our running game is better, then our defense gets more rest and hopefully plays better. If our running game is better, we improve in the red zone. If our running game is better, then hopefully we won't throw as many interceptions or have as many sacks or have as many fumbles.

If I had to pick another thing, it would be to just improve our defense all the freaking way around. We've got to force more 3 and outs. We've got to stop the pass and the run cause right now, we're not really that good at stopping either. I hate having to hope for a series of mistakes by the other team so that they don't convert on a third or fourth down.